Description

The data set contains monthly average global fields of six shortwave (SW)surface radiative parameters derived with the Quality-Check SW (QCSW) algorithmof the NASA World Climate Research Programme /Global Energy and Water-CycleExperiment (WCRP/GEWEX) Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project.The parameters contained in these files are:1. Top-of-atmosphere (TOA) Shortwave Downward Flux (insolation)2. Surface Pristine-sky Shortwave Downward Flux3. Surface Clear-sky Shortwave Downward Flux4. Surface All-sky Shortwave Downward Flux5. Surface All-sky Shortwave Net Flux 6. Surface All-sky Shortwave Albedo These parameters were derived originally on a daily temporal resolution. Monthlyaverages were computed from the daily values. The current version of the datasets is identified as Release 3.0. It covers a period of 24.5 years from July 1983 to December 2007.

DOI

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Publications which Cite this Collection

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Quaglia, Ilaria; Timmreck, Claudia; Niemeier, Ulrike; Visioni, Daniele; Pitari, Giovanni; Brodowsky, Christina; Brühl, Christoph; Dhomse, Sandip S.; Franke, Henning; Laakso, Anton; Mann, Graham W.; Rozanov, Eugene; Sukhodolov, Timofei (2023). Interactive stratospheric aerosol models' response to different amounts and altitudes of SO2 injection during the 1991 Pinatubo eruption.

Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

PROJECT HOME PAGE

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DATA CITATION GUIDELINES

• How to cite ASDC data

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

• ASDC Data and Information for SRB
• Department of Energy (DOE) National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC)
• Solar Energy International (SEI) - A non-profit (501 (c)3) organization whose mission is to provide education and technical assistance so that others will be empowered to use renewable energy technologies

HOW-TO

• Program to read Release 3 QCSW Monthly in netCDF - Direct File Download (.txt)

MICRO ARTICLE

• Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: "Absorption of Solar Radiation by Clouds: Observations versus Models"
• Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: A Long-Term TOA and Constrained Surface Radiation Budget Dataset Using Merged CERES, ERBE and ISCCP/SRB Products from the Past 30 Years

READ-ME

• SRB_REL3.0_QCSW_MONTHLY (netCDF) - GEWEX Quality-Check Monthly Shortwave Readme File

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